Tagged: Google & News
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€2,500 online business voucher on way to help SMEs access €21bn digital economy News
26.04.2013 Internet giants Facebook, Google and PayPal are to work on a special pilot involving 20 Irish companies to bring them into the digital economy. Announcing the pilot, Ireland's... -
The technology business week: GameAccount Network teams up with MPTN, Google buys Wavii News
29.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Google Street View hits 50 countries – massive update adds 563,270 km of road News
25.04.2013 Google has launched the largest update of its Street View service yet, to mark the occasion of reaching 50 countries this week. The major new update sees the search giant add...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Internet, Digital Media, Database, Consumer Tech -
Geek chic: up to 10m pairs of smart glasses expected to ship by 2016 News
25.04.2013 The global market for smart glasses could amount to 10m units by 2016, IHS has predicted. This will be spurred on by Google’s efforts to promote application development for its... -
Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday inspires Google Doodle (video) News
25.04.2013 Google has struck a high note with its colourful Google Doodle in honour of what would have been jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday today. -
Google and Cisco take joint lead in Greenpeace green IT rankings News
24.04.2013 Cisco and Google have both earned the top spot in the latest Cool IT Leaderboard from Greenpeace that ranks 21 global IT and telecom giants based on the innovative steps they...Categories: Consumer Tech, Energy, Green, Green Computing, Green Tech, Renewable Energy, Search Engines -
Google acquires news reader start-up Wavii for about US$30m - report News
24.04.2013 Google has beaten Apple to the punch in acquiring news feed start-up Wavii for around US$30m. -
Google predictive text ‘defines’ places in Ireland News
24.04.2013 Google predictive text can be a convenient tool, but sometimes when an internet user types a search term into the search engine, it can deliver some rather interesting... -
YouTube turns 8 - celebrating with its top 8 videos News
23.04.2013 YouTube has reaped well more than 1trn views - that's about 140 views for every person on the planet - during its existence. The video-sharing site marks its eighth anniversary... -
St George’s Day receives Google Doodle treatment News
23.04.2013 A colourful and medieval-looking Google Doodle marking St George’s Day greets users of internet search giant Google in the UK today. -
The week in gadgets: paper touchscreens, Kobo’s Kindle killer, and the rules of Google Glass News
22.04.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as Fujitsu demonstrates technology that can turn paper into a touchscreen display, Google retains control of its Glass devices, Kobo turns up the... -
Earth Day 2013 celebrated via animated Google Doodle News
22.04.2013 Earth Day is being marked all over the world today and Google is getting in on the action by featuring a colourful and interactive doodle on its homepage to mark the cycle of...Tags: Google, Climate Change -
Weekend news round-up: anti-CISPA web blackout; US to tax the internet? News
22.04.2013 In our trawl through the weekend’s best tech stories, it has emerged that the US Senate is about to vote on legislation to give states the power to tax online purchases; how...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Internet, Financial, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business -
The technology business week: €16.2bn in export sales for Enterprise Ireland clients, troika exit to boost IDA’s efforts News
22.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Google reports Q1 revenues of US$14bn and net profit of US$3.48bn News
18.04.2013 Internet giant Google reported Q1 revenues of US$14bn, resulting in a net profit of US$3.48bn, which CEO Larry Page said was due to solid execution of the company’s product... -
Glass owner shares pictures of Google’s smart specs online News
18.04.2013 Now that the first Glass ‘explorers’ are starting to receive their smart glasses from Google, we can see what comes in the box for US$1,500.Categories: Consumer Tech, Computers -
Google service disruption affecting some Drive, email and Apps users News
17.04.2013 As of about 2pm today, Google Apps’ email, Drive, Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations services have been experiencing service disruptions that seem to have affected some... -
Google launches person finder following Boston marathon explosions News
16.04.2013 Search engine Google has quickly added a person finder service in the aftermath of the horrific events in Boston yesterday.Categories: Web, Search Engines, Search, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Donegal student's winning Doodle 4 Google graces homepage News
16.04.2013 Annie Coyle, a 15-year-old student from Letterkenny, Co Donegal, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle that has been...Tags: Google, Women Invent Tomorrow -
Microsoft is the latest tech giant believed to be working on a smartwatch device News
15.04.2013 Software giant Microsoft has become the latest addition to the coterie of tech giants working on the next frontier of form factors – the watch. As well as its own smartphone,...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers